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Wow, wiping cache through recovery fixed 2 big issues for me...

Issue 1 - Ever since going from FRF50 to 72, I noticed that my soft keys weren't as responsive. My fingers had to roll over onto the actual screen to get them to register.
Issue 2 - Pinch-zooming in the gallery worked oddly. Once I set two fingers down without moving, the image would start shifting away from me. And when I spread my fingers, the image never zoomed into the area between my fingers.
I finally rooted and used amon_ra's recovery to wipe cache and dalvik cache, and both those issues are fixed! I don't know which cache wipe did it, but either way I'm glad it worked.

How to wipe cache with stock phone (no root, no updates)?
Is there any way to do it without third apps?

Yes, boot into recovery (turn off the device, then hold down the trackball while powering on the device)... then follow the instructions to navigate to the recovery window)... I believe when you get to recovery you get an android with an exclamation point.... press volume up, volume down, and power button all at the same time to access the submenus. Wipe should be in there. Works for non-rooted and locked phones. It's the same way I did my manual 2.2 update.

Atento said:
How to wipe cache with stock phone (no root, no updates)?
Is there any way to do it without third apps?
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From stock recovery you can select wipe cache partition and see if that helps.

Just to be sure, all my data will still be there after the cache wipe, right? Coz it's only a cache wipe and not a phone wipe...
Sorry for my noob question, my phone is still stock and I m not familiar with the recovery yet, I will try when cm6 is out
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App

lou2s said:
Just to be sure, all my data will still be there after the cache wipe, right? Coz it's only a cache wipe and not a phone wipe...
Sorry for my noob question, my phone is still stock and I m not familiar with the recovery yet, I will try when cm6 is out
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App
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This I'm not sure about.... I haven't wiped yet, though I'm about to. I'm not entirely sure what the system stores in the cache partition, so I'm nervous about doing it. I did backup my SMS messages (using SMS Backup & Restore) and my Apps (using AppMonster) just in case I decide to see how it works and it does remove my apps and sms messages. My contacts are all stored with google and on my macs address book so I'm not worried about that. And my photos and music are on the SD card so it won't lose those either.

im having problems with the keys too, and also with my gps...
im wondering, what kind of wipe you did to your N?

I just used amon ra's recovery to wipe the caches.

erikikaz said:
Issue 1 - Ever since going from FRF50 to 72, I noticed that my soft keys weren't as responsive. My fingers had to roll over onto the actual screen to get them to register.
Issue 2 - Pinch-zooming in the gallery worked oddly. Once I set two fingers down without moving, the image would start shifting away from me. And when I spread my fingers, the image never zoomed into the area between my fingers.
I finally rooted and used amon_ra's recovery to wipe cache and dalvik cache, and both those issues are fixed! I don't know which cache wipe did it, but either way I'm glad it worked.
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Thanks for the heads up. I wiped my cache and although I never had any issues with pinch zoom in the gallery, it completely fixed my soft key issue. They are now very responsive and register in the correct spot now!

lostinbeta said:
This I'm not sure about.... I haven't wiped yet, though I'm about to. I'm not entirely sure what the system stores in the cache partition, so I'm nervous about doing it. I did backup my SMS messages (using SMS Backup & Restore) and my Apps (using AppMonster) just in case I decide to see how it works and it does remove my apps and sms messages. My contacts are all stored with google and on my macs address book so I'm not worried about that. And my photos and music are on the SD card so it won't lose those either.
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OK. I did it and no prsonal information deleted after that and I should say that the problems I had with keyboard and freezing seems to be fixed. I just worked with phone for 15 minutes. Hope it remains like this.
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App

lou2s said:
Just to be sure, all my data will still be there after the cache wipe, right? Coz it's only a cache wipe and not a phone wipe...
Sorry for my noob question, my phone is still stock and I m not familiar with the recovery yet, I will try when cm6 is out
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No you wont lose any data/settings. I know because i just wiped cache partition on my N1 few minutes ago and all my stuff are still intact.

So if you do the OTA, does it wipe the caches for you?

I just did the Wipe Cache Partition, all my things are fine. Stock Froyo with stock recovery. I was hoping to get a better response from the buttons, I'd say it might be better. It's hard to tell, but it doesn't feel like I have to hunt for them as much now.
For anyone wanting to try it, once you get into the recovery menu you'll see it's save. There's a Wipe Data/Factory Reset option and then the last one is Wipe Cache. Just use the trackball to do a Wipe Cache. Mine took about 2.4 seconds to do this. I rebooted (which is nice and quick anymore) and everything seems fine.
I don't know what the cache is or what is in it. It may have just kicked a dog, I don't know.

I do this every few days.
I'm in the same boat, I have no clue if I'm kicking a dead dog or if it helps but I like to think it helps (LOL).
All personal data is intact. Nothing (I notice) is lost.

uoY_redruM said:
I do this every few days.
I'm in the same boat, I have no clue if I'm kicking a dead dog or if it helps but I like to think it helps (LOL).
All personal data is intact. Nothing (I notice) is lost.
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So this means it is safe to do even though you are not reinstalling an update?

erikikaz said:
Issue 1 - Ever since going from FRF50 to 72, I noticed that my soft keys weren't as responsive. My fingers had to roll over onto the actual screen to get them to register.
Issue 2 - Pinch-zooming in the gallery worked oddly. Once I set two fingers down without moving, the image would start shifting away from me. And when I spread my fingers, the image never zoomed into the area between my fingers.
I finally rooted and used amon_ra's recovery to wipe cache and dalvik cache, and both those issues are fixed! I don't know which cache wipe did it, but either way I'm glad it worked.
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You are a star...
Just sorted my own gallery problems by doing this - it never occurred to me to try it before...
I used to wonder why people went on about the gallery animations...

[Q] Reboot Button problem

OK, I'd appreciate some help here. I Just downloaded Zenmaster's Reboot button app. I probably made a mistake by going to ROM manager and its install from SD card option.
The install started out fine, but just stalled at installing update. Left it there for 30 minutes.
I did a battery pull and the phone went into recovery except it says at the bottom of the screen:
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk01p1
(Invalid Arguement)
#MANUAL MODE#
The upper screen has the typical
reboot system now
Apply sdcard...
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
Nothing happens with either reboot system now or apply from sdcard
So I really would appreciate...what now.

Are you rooted? Do you have Clockwork Recovery installed?
Are you hitting the "Home" soft button key on the Reboot option? That's the "Enter" key for the stock recovery screen, not the Power button like it is for Clockwork.
-Div

Diversion said:
Are you rooted? Do you have Clockwork Recovery installed?
Are you hitting the "Home" soft button key on the Reboot option? That's the "Enter" key for the stock recovery screen, not the Power button like it is for Clockwork.
-Div
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Thanks for your response.
Yes I'm rooted and yes I have CWM.
This is embarrassing now, because I WAS NOT hitting the home button, which I should have known to do, but obviously forgot. Did that and I'm back up. Old Droid habits die hard I guess.
My apologies for using up bandwidth and thank you again.

SteveC485 said:
Thanks for your response.
Yes I'm rooted and yes I have CWM.
This is embarrassing now, because I WAS NOT hitting the home button, which I should have known to do, but obviously forgot. Did that and I'm back up.
My apologizes for using up bandwidth and thank you again.
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That's okay, I believe I freaked out the first time I was in stock recovery as well not getting any response from the power button

SteveC485 said:
OK, I'd appreciate some help here. I Just downloaded Zenmaster's Reboot button app. I probably made a mistake by going to ROM manager and its install from SD card option.
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Yeah, that's not gonna work. The app is a .apk file, which gets installed via adb or Root Manager/Astro. It's not a flashable zip.
It's also now available on the market .

Zennmaster said:
It's also now available on the market .
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Bonus. That is fantastic news.

Well naming the .zip to .apk worked and Reboot Button worked. Sort of. I think what happened here was no fault of the app, but something related to the relationship between my phone and voodoo. I had never seen any particular problem on my phone, but I just wanted a way to disable the thing as I was contemplating flashing jt's ROM.
Well the disabling of voodo lost root on my phone. I use Launcher Pro and that was gone too. So I tried reinstalling that and entered a force close loop from hell. After installing the LP, the phone regressed to the same opening screen it had when out of the box, different from the static wallpaper I had.
There is a thread on this here:
http://forum.androidcentral.com/fascinate-roms-hacks/38029-how-escape-force-close-loop-hell.html
I followed that and got back to the out of the box Fascinate state. Only part of my apps, and not all of the paid ones showed up in Market, even after an overnight wait. The significant missing one is Documents to Go.
There was 0.00 space left on internal memory, so I did a factory reset.
This would not be a big deal, BUT the phone will not root, so I can't use Titanium Backup to restore stuff. The Samsung Drivers are installed, the USB cable is the one that came with the phone, and the computer recognizes the device. However, Odin seems to think the device is not connected.
So, I'm not sure what is going on with this phone of mine. Again, I don't think it is the app.
Edit; All is back to normal

Help pls Facebook/twitter syn issue

the phone facebook and twitter wont
sync all the way.it keeps sayin log in
fail.try later

Same thing on mine. Just started happening. I think it may be on samsung's/facebook's end.

bbeaulieu said:
Same thing on mine. Just started happening. I think it may be on samsung's/facebook's end.
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yeah i think it was mine is up
n running now though,what about
yours?

Yeah, things seem to be ok now. Must have been a glitch or something.

My Facebook wont sync with my Fascinate. Says there is an error with sync and to try again later. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Update - I just did the whole erase and then added the account back at the 1 hour sync interval and it worked fine... Only a handfull of contacts arent synced which im not too thrilled about, but ill take it over nothing!

massappeal16 said:
My Facebook wont sync with my Fascinate. Says there is an error with sync and to try again later. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Update - I just did the whole erase and then added the account back at the 1 hour sync interval and it worked fine... Only a handfull of contacts arent synced which im not too thrilled about, but ill take it over nothing!
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boot to clockworkmod and do a wipe of everything. This should fix your sync issue, however you will have to reaload all your apps and set up your phone again. Recommend a Titanium Backup before you do all that though. This fixed it for me.

sonar_chris said:
boot to clockworkmod and do a wipe of everything. This should fix your sync issue, however you will have to reaload all your apps and set up your phone again. Recommend a Titanium Backup before you do all that though. This fixed it for me.
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Had a similar issue, for me i found it was my baseband. i upgraded the modem to DJ05 but was still on older ROM. When i downgraded the modem, everything was fine. Also when i re-upgraded both everything was fine too.

sonar_chris said:
boot to clockworkmod and do a wipe of everything. This should fix your sync issue, however you will have to reaload all your apps and set up your phone again. Recommend a Titanium Backup before you do all that though. This fixed it for me.
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Not to be a total ratard... but can you give me a step-by-step to this? I just like knowing exactly what I have to do so as to not mess anything up. Thanks!

Can anyone else verify this works and/or give me a step by step to do it in newb form?
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App

massappeal16 said:
Not to be a total ratard... but can you give me a step-by-step to this? I just like knowing exactly what I have to do so as to not mess anything up. Thanks!
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massappeal16 said:
Can anyone else verify this works and/or give me a step by step to do it in newb form?
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App
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1. Turn your phone off
2. While holding both the volume buttons down press the Power button. Hold all three down until you have booted to the Hboot screen (android guys on skate boards on the bottom of the screen)
3. Let the phone search for an update (will take about 15 seconds)
4. With the volume buttons toggle down 1 space to recovery. Press the power button.
5. Phone will boot to Clockworkdmod.
6. use the volume buttons to scroll down to wipe data/factory reset and press the power button.
7. Scroll down to yes and press the power button again.
8. After wipe data/factory reset is complete, scroll down to wipe cache partition and press the power button
9. Scroll down to yes and press the power button again.
10. After cache partition wipe is complete scroll down to advanced and press the power button.
11. Scroll down once to Dalvik Cache. Press the power button.
12 Scroll down to yes and hit the power button.
13. After Dalvik Cache wipe is complete, press the menu soft key at the bottom of the phone.
14. At this point your should be back to the main menu of Clockworkmod, reboot system now should be highlighted, press the power button.
15. Phone will reboot, set up your phone again, sign into facebook again and then restore apps via titanium backup.

That worked like a charm, thanks so much!

I spoke too soon. All the sudden half my pics are gone from NY contacts and the sync is down again... any ideas? Is it something in the Super Clean ROM?
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App

I must have done something wrong...

On stock 2.1 from a brand new phone. Wanting to get a Bionix-V 1.2 rom installed to start with. (unless someone points out a more popular/stable/better rom to start with)
So I thought I was following the guide right but I cant figure out what.
NOOB GUIDE is what I was following. Here is where I think i messed up or got lost.
3 – Rom Manager / Clockwork Recovery
Now that you have your apps, system data & home settings saved, go to the Market to download Rom Manager (there is a paid and a free version, either will work, but I always suggest supporting developers if you can). We are going to use Rom Manager to install an alternate recovery, called Clockwork Recovery. This is what allows you to make a backup of your entire system (called a nandroid backup).
Once you download and install Rom Manager, open it, give it Root Access (Check to always remember if it's not already selected). At the top, click "Flash Clockwork Recovery" and after it has finished click to Reboot Into Recovery.
If this is your first time, you are very likely at the stock vibrant recovery (purple text)... click on Re-install packages. Your phone will reboot and should come back to the Clockwork Recovery (green text).
If at stock, click reinstall packages again (likely worked the first time).
Great, now you have a custom recovery. Scroll down (by using the volume buttons) and select (by using the power button) to backup your system. This will take about 5 minutes to complete. Once done, you have a complete snapshot of your phone that you should always be able to come back to.
I strongly encourage reading Koush's thread, you can find it here.
His installation instructions have more detail:
Installation instructions:
1.Download ROM Manager from the Market.
2.Flash Recovery.
3.Choose Vibrant as your phone.
4.Accept the Superuser prompt.
5.On the very FIRST boot of Clockwork, you may need to manually select "reinstall packages" if Clockwork does not start. You should only ever have to do this once. It will be automatic from then on.
6.Watch the backup go!
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The thing is when I try to reboot into Clockwork it still looks the same, nothing happens when i tell Rom Manager to backup, it just restarts to what looks like the original recovery screen. It looks something like this..
Android system recovery <2e>
Samsung Recovery Utils
- for BML -
Vol Up - up
Vol Down - down
Power - Selec item
Reboot system now
reinstall packages
delete all user data
delete cache data
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Since this is my first flash I might just be overly paranoid but if this is not right I dont want to mess up my brand new phone by just plowing ahead without being sure.
Thanks for any help... yet again.

Try selecting reinstall packages. And then again a second time.
Tap volume down then push lock/power to select.

Try reinstalling packages.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

TY, guess I must not have told it to reinstall enough times.

Took me 3x reinstall packages before I actually got into cwm. You will know when you get tehre.

Caliga if you need more help or have questions send me an email I'm PMing u my email address.

OK, so something has gone wrong. At first I thought it was all ok but now the more apps i try to open the more nothing seems to work. Going to try to go back to stock and see if i can start over but I cant seem to get this phone to go to the clockwork recovery menu. Every time i restart the phone and hold the keys it still boots like normal. guess its time for more research.

Had the same issue with my new Vibrant. Look for the 3e recovery fix listed in here. Solved my issues.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

^ he was on eclair (2e), the 3e recovery is not an issue here.

caliga4221 said:
OK, so something has gone wrong. At first I thought it was all ok but now the more apps i try to open the more nothing seems to work. Going to try to go back to stock and see if i can start over but I cant seem to get this phone to go to the clockwork recovery menu. Every time i restart the phone and hold the keys it still boots like normal. guess its time for more research.
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Apps don't work probably because you did not do a correct wipe when you flashed. Try: Wipe Data/Factory Reset - then Flash the ROM - then Wipe cache - then go to advanced and wipe Devil Cache - then Fix permissions from the same menu, go back and reboot.

roumenjr said:
Apps don't work probably because you did not do a correct wipe when you flashed. Try: Wipe Data/Factory Reset - then Flash the ROM - then Wipe cache - then go to advanced and wipe Devil Cache - then Fix permissions from the same menu, go back and reboot.
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lol Devil cache.
Were you able to flash bionix? From CWM You just select install zip from sd, and select your file.

ferhanmm said:
lol Devil cache.
Were you able to flash bionix? From CWM You just select install zip from sd, and select your file.
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Ups, typo........ Dalvik Cache. I'm glad I made you laugh ferhanmm, i'm actually cracking up myself as I type. I must have been thinking of my boss when I posted....or maybe my wife!
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

Sorry for delayed response. Towns wifi went down last night and someone just now got around to resetting it.
@ferhanmm: I did get bionix on but it was acting very flaky, system ended up getting stuck in what i thought was a brick but someone in my other thread helped me get it working again and now i have a fully working trigger rom.
Everything is up and going again now I would like to get a theme for it, but really the only thing i dont like is all the green icons. About to do some research and see if I can just replace icons somehow.

[Q] Phone Constantly Locks - Which Service is Responsible?

I used Titanium Backup to uninstall certain packages (not before backing them up, of course) and it seems that I uninstalled too much... Whenever I start certain applications, the phone immediately blanks - and locks.
I have to press the power button 1-2 times before the screen unlock allows me to seep my finger. And it doesn't always succeed in retaining the screen: too often, it will immediately blank and lock again.
Example of applications that make the phone lock: Titanium Backup.
Example of applications that don't blank the phone: Dialer.
I started restoring some of the packages I uninstalled yesterday with the hope that this will fix the problem. So far I tried restoring:
- hiddenmenus
- sns
- Dialer 2.2.2
-setup wizard
- syncMLsvc
But without much success yet.
Any idea which service or package are responsible for correct behavior of the phone?
UPDATE 2: I gave up and decided to flash the EC07-Nuckin-1 ROM. I repeated the entire procedure detailed here and the phone boots fine, but the problem persists - in addition to the fact that the soft menu buttons now disappeared (replaced by faint color dots - LED-like).
How could this happen? Is it possible that my phone contracted an Android virus? (it appears that the problem started immediately after installing Stay Awake from the Android Market.

OK, this is becoming insane: I did a factory reset, re-installed ec07-clean, and not only the problem persists, the settings, home, back and search buttons no longer work!
Not to mention that my account details (and everything else) are still there, even after the factory reset...
And Market won't even start.
How is this possible?
What do I do to simply start from scratch, wiping out everything and all history (except for the SD card)?

verizonless said:
OK, this is becoming insane: I did a factory reset, re-installed ec07-clean, and not only the problem persists, the settings, home, back and search buttons no longer work!
Not to mention that my account details (and everything else) are still there, even after the factory reset...
How is this possible?
What do I do to simply start from scratch, wiping out everything and all history (except for the SD card)?
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those softkey mod (led dots) are in the rom, look at what ur downloading/flashing first.
did u clear caches/dalvik??? clear them before u flash ec07clean and after and see buddy.

ciscogee said:
did u clear caches/dalvik??? clear them before u flash ec07clean
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Of course I did.
ciscogee said:
and after
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After, too? I didn't know that.
ciscogee said:
and see buddy.
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Who is buddy?
ciscogee said:
those softkey mod (led dots) are in the rom, look at what ur downloading/flashing first.
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OK, but they don't respond. Even with your ec07-clean.
Is there a way to do a real factory reset? Start all over again? This problem is driving me nuts.
Thank you ciscogee, you life saver.

Ur buddy lol.
I'm out and about right now. In joshkoss rom thread there is a dl17 stock rom. If u flollow that second post I believe u will achieve 2. 1 stock as in out the box and flash up from there
Sent from my SCH-I400 using xda premium

ciscogee said:
I'm out and about right now. In joshkoss rom thread there is a dl17 stock rom. If u flollow that second post I believe u will achieve 2. 1 stock as in out the box and flash up from there
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I'm not really interested in 2.1. I just don't understand why a total re-install of ec07clean.zip + ec07.tar + update.zip won't restore everything to "brand new condition". Surely there is a way to tell the phone to "forget all history". But what is it?
In the meanwhile, I managed to make the Settings (leftmost) button work, by manually restoring SDM from Titanium Backup.
Android Market now starts. But the SCREEN OFF problem persists. I am now beginning to believe that Stay Awake actually caused a permanent damage.

verizonless said:
I'm not really interested in 2.1. I just don't understand why a total re-install of ec07clean.zip + ec07.tar + update.zip won't restore everything to "brand new condition". Surely there is a way to tell the phone to "forget all history". But what is it?
In the meanwhile, I managed to make the Settings (leftmost) button work, by manually restoring SDM from Titanium Backup.
Android Market now starts. But the SCREEN OFF problem persists. I am now beginning to believe that Stay Awake actually caused a permanent damage.
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i understand, but see dl17 is the latest official samsung/verizon release, so what ever you erased will be brought back. the roms that are released here are leaks/hacked so they wouldnt be 100% until tweaked

ciscogee said:
i understand, but see dl17 is the latest official samsung/verizon release, so what ever you erased will be brought back. the roms that are released here are leaks/hacked so they wouldnt be 100% until tweaked
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I understand that they aren't 100% and I am OK with that. All I want is bring the phone to that pristine state it was right after I upgraded it from DL17 to ec07clean.zip.
Is this possible at all?
I even tried the built in stock recovery 2e to do "factory restore". Didn't help.
Why doesn't it even delete my account information? This is weird.

Wipe all your data. Cache. Dalvik etc.
Sent from my SCH-I400 using xda premium

ciscogee said:
Wipe all your data. Cache. Dalvik etc.
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I tried this at least 4 times. It doesn't get rid of anything. That's really puzzling.
In the meanwhile, I managed to restore my phone to a usable state (i.e. get rid of the original screen-off problem). Here is how I did it:
Settings > Display Settings > Power saving mode: UNCHECK (was checked)
Settings > Display Settings > Screen timeout: 1 minute (non was selected!)
I bet this was some remanent of that Stay Awake app.
Now, I lost quite a few productivity hours due to this. But at least now I know that this phone will always be mine, because in this particular phone, "Factory data reset" simply doesn't work.

Have you thought about using a different version of clockwork for flashing and wiping? That usually helps or perhaps stock recovery even
Sent from my DROIDX using xda premium

verizonless said:
I tried this at least 4 times. It doesn't get rid of anything. That's really puzzling.
...
But at least now I know that this phone will always be mine, because in this particular phone, "Factory data reset" simply doesn't work.
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Mystery solved!
It turns out that it is the cyan wipe that doesn't work. The red wipe works.
Here is what I did:
Settings > Privacy > Factory data reset (Erases all data on phone) > Reset phone > Erase everything attempt:
Progressed as expected, then rebooted -- right into Android System recover <2e> (blue!):
Code:
Samsung Recovery Utils
- for BML -
reboot system now
apply sdcard:update.zip
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
___________________________________________
-- Wiping data...
Formatting FOTA:...
FOTA wipe failed.
Formatting DATA:...
Data wipe failed.
Formatting CACHE:...
Cache wipe failed.
Formatting DBDATA:...
Db data wipe failed.
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
(No such file or directy)
E: install_application_for_customer:Can't mount HIDDENSDCARD:
your storage not prepared yet. please use UI menu for format and reboot actions.
copy application failed.
As you can see, there were clear error messages, so now I selected "apply sdcard:update.zip" ==> which brought me you into CwM Voodo Lagfix Recovery v2.5.1.x:
Code:
wipe data/factory reset
-- Wiping data...
Formatting DATA:...
Formatting DATADATA:...
Formatting CACHE:...
Formatting SDEXT:...
Formatting SDCARD:/:.android_secure...
Data wipe complete.
wipe cache partition
-- Wiping cache...
Formatting CACHE:...
Cache wipe complete.
Advanced > Wipe Dalvik Cache
Dalvik Cache wiped
Reboot system now
Phone looks now brand new.
Oh wait! I just examined the SD card and it contains all the old stuff. Nothing wiped, nothing formatted. And the Home button doesn't work. And the ticker-feed button reboots the phone... What's going on???

Edit: Looking into what you said